Mum Karen drops two dress sizes with help of laser therapy

HAIRDRESSER Karen Ronald has seen the light – and dropped two dress sizes in five months.

HAIRDRESSER Karen Ronald has seen the light – and dropped two dress sizes in five months.

The mum-of-two from Glasgow wanted to fit into a dress for a Christmas night out – and lost weight using laser therapy.

She shed around 10lbs in a month and dropped from a size 16 to a 14. But she continued losing weight and fell to a size 12 within five months thanks to laser therapy.

Karen, 44, who manages JR Hairdressing salons in Glasgow and is mum to Mason, four, and Olivia, nine, said: “I’d always been fairly heavy. I was a yo-yo dieter. I tried everything from slimming pills to slimming clubs, three-day diets to meal replacements. I’d lose weight sometimes but then put it all back on again.

“I thought I’d be able to work off what I ate with exercise and sport but it wasn’t happening.

“And when the kids were going to bed I was going to bed early as I had no energy left at the end of the day.

“My eating habits were erratic and I had a tremendous sweet tooth. I could eat five bars of chocolate in a day and I loved biscuits and cakes.

“I’d lost weight before but I knew I had started to eat all the wrong things again. In my head I was all over the place.

“In fact, if I was in the mood I’d eat everything in sight – and then some more! I felt out of control, off the rails.

“Work didn’t help as being a hairdresser you don’t have time to sit and have lunch so you grab something to keep you going – and I’d snack on sweet things.

“I was squeezing into a tight 14. In fact, if I really admit it I should have been buying size 16.

“The trigger for me was a special occasion. I had one month to fit into the dress I wanted to wear. That was my goal.”

It was October 2011 and Karen wanted to fit into a dress for a Christmas night out.

“I went looking online and I’d heard you could get laser therapy for weight loss and found Anne Penman. I checked the website and made a booking.

“I recognised her name and it wasn’t until I had my first visit that I realised she’d treated my father 15 years ago to help him give up smoking. He’s still a non-smoker today.

The treatment uses a cold, soft laser beam that targets specific energy points on the hands, ears, nose, wrists, arms, legs and feet to stimulate the release of endorphins, to suppress appetite and help with food cravings.

“After the first two days I was detoxing, and like Anne had warned me, I did feel dehydrated and had to drink plenty of water. But I felt different,” said Karen.

“For the first six to eight weeks I ate no chocolate, cake or biscuits and I started to lose the weight.

“I dropped a dress size and about 10lbs in four weeks and got into the dress I wanted to wear for the Christmas night out.

“But I kept going and by about March I’d dropped another size and got down to a 12 and lost more than two stone.

“My aim was to feel healthy and fit, and that’s how I feel now.”

Karen even persuaded her partner David to go to Anne to help him give up smoking, and ever since his first two sessions he has been smoke-free.

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